Saw Gerrera

Saw Gerrera
Star Wars character

Forest Whitaker as Saw Gerrera in Rogue One (left) and Gerrera as he appears in Star Wars: The Clone Wars (right).
First appearance The Clone Wars
– "A War on Two Fronts" (2012)
Last appearance Star Wars Rebels:
- "Ghosts Of Geonosis" (2017)
Created by George Lucas
Portrayed by Forest Whitaker
Voiced by Andrew Kishino (The Clone Wars)
Forest Whitaker (Star Wars Rebels)
Information
Gender Male
Occupation Bounty Hunter
Rebel
Partisan
Affiliation Onderon Rebels[1]
Rebel Alliance - Onderon Division,
Partisans
Family Steela Gerrera (younger sister)[2]
Homeworld Onderon

Saw Gerrera is a fictional character in the Star Wars franchise. Saw was originally introduced in the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars, where he was voiced by Andrew Kishino. He was subsequently played by Forest Whitaker in the anthology film Rogue One: A Star Wars Story as well as voiced by him in the animated series Star Wars Rebels.

In The Clone Wars, he is the brother of the leader of the Onderon rebels, Steela Guererra, whom he helps free Onderon from the Confederacy of Independent Systems, and is mentored in military combat by the Jedi Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker (along his Padawan Ahsoka Tano) and clone trooper Captain Rex. In Rogue One, Saw is a close friend of Galen Erso, the foster parent and mentor in military combat of Jyn Erso, as well as the leader of an extremist rebel cell called the Partisans unaffiliated with the Rebel Alliance due to Saw's violent military tactics.

Concept and creation

Though Saw appeared in animated form in The Clone Wars, that was not the original plan for him. Appearing on The Star Wars Show, Pablo Hidalgo of Lucasfilm’s Story Group revealed the character’s origin; "He started off before that. George Lucas had him in mind for his live-action TV series that was in development, which ultimately never happened, but he found a place to put Saw into a story in Clone Wars."[3]

Supervising director of The Clone Wars Dave Filoni stated: "We wanted a brother/sister duo on Onderon, and the character Saw was a character that George had already created, and he just wanted to involve and tell a little more about that character. So in the course of that we created Steela [to be Saw's sister], who would act as a natural foil to Ahsoka."[4]

Andrew Kishino, who voiced Saw in The Clone Wars, said that the character "[H]as even sort of, embodied in him, that feisty spirit of the Rebellion. The take-no-garbage kind of individual. He's stoic and strong and brash. He's 'that' guy, and it's that kind of strength tempered with Steela's calm, level-headed thinking, that is, to stand up to something that will ultimately become the Empire, absolutely critical and necessary.[5]

Saw Gerrera's name is a "mnemonic riff" on the Argentinian revolutionary Che Guevara.[6] Gerrera is also a heterograph of the Spanish word "guerrera", meaning "female warrior", describing Steela.

Entertainment Weekly revealed the character's appearance in Rogue One on June 22, 2016.[7] The film's director, Gareth Edwards, had wanted a character to showcase the more "militant" and "extreme" side of the rebellion. Kiri Hart suggested using Gerrera, a pre-established character, in this role.[6] Rogue One takes place roughly twenty years after his appearance in The Clone Wars.[6]

Appearances

Films

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

Gerrera reappears in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, portrayed by Forest Whitaker. Within the film, Gerrera leads the Partisans, an extremist faction of the Rebel Alliance, on the planet Jedha. He is Jyn Erso's mentor, having rescued her as a child when her father Galen was abducted by Orson Krennic the imperial military director of weapons research. Gerrera has a reunion with Jyn on Jedha where he has a message from Galen indicating a weakness in the Death Star. While hearing the message the Death Star destroys Jedha City and Gerrera remains back to die while Jyn and her rebels companions escape.

Animated Series

Star Wars: The Clone Wars

Saw Gerrera (voiced by Andrew Kishino) first appearance was in the fifth season of Star Wars: The Clone Wars, in the "Onderon arc" consisting of the episodes "A War on Two Fronts", "Front Runners", "The Soft War", and "Tipping Point". The character appears on all the episodes of the arc, along with his sister, Steela Gerrera, who was the leader of the Onderon rebels. The Jedi Knights Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker (and his Padawan Ahsoka Tano), along with clone trooper Captain Rex, secretly train Saw and the other members of the resistance movement in military combat but refuse to get involved in the conflict, and leave Ahsoka to supervise the operation with instructions to not fight the battle for them. Saw and Steela lead Onderon to victory over the Confederacy of Independent Systems.[8] Dave Filoni along with the writers, decided for the arc to end with the death of Steela, because in his words, he wanted to depict that "there had to be a price paid for their freedom".[4]

Star Wars Rebels

Saw is mentioned in the Star Wars Rebels second season episode "The Honorable Ones", as being a factor in Agent Kallus's disdain for the rebellion's tactics against the Empire and part of the reason he participated in the genocide of the Lasat race of Ghost crew member Garazeb "Zeb" Orrelios.

Saw makes an appearance in the third season, two-part episode "Ghost of Geonosis", with Forest Whitaker reprising his role from Rogue One in vocal capacity. In the episode, after the Rebellion loses contact with Saw and his squad investigating Geonosis, they decide to send the Ghost crew (including Jedi Knight Kanan Jarrus, his Padawan Ezra Bridger, and Captain Rex) to rescue him. Given the continuity error of Saw having a different eye colour in Rogue One to his appearance in The Clone Wars, a mixture of the two was used to imply Gerrera's eye colour to be changing with age.[9][10]

Whitaker will reprise his role as Gerrera in season 4, set shortly before the events of Rogue One.

Novels

Saw appears in the novel adaptation of the film Rogue One.

Star Wars: Bloodline

The character is mentioned in the novel Star Wars: Bloodline, set six years before the events of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, where it is noted that his methods of combating the Empire are viewed as having been "extreme".

Catalyst: A Rogue One Novel

Gerrera appears in Catalyst: A Rogue One Novel, detailing how he came to meet Galen, Lyra and Jyn Erso.

References

  1. ↑ "Onderon Rebels". StarWars.com. June 16, 2014. Retrieved December 2, 2016.
  2. ↑ "Steela Gerrera". StarWars.com. Retrieved December 2, 2016.
  3. ↑ "10 Things You Should Know About Saw Gerrera from The Clone Wars". StarWars.com. June 23, 2016. Retrieved December 2, 2016.
  4. 1 2 "Interview: Dave Filoni on Star Wars: The Clone Wars Season Five, Part 1". StarWars.com. October 15, 2013. Retrieved December 2, 2016.
  5. ↑ "Interview: Andrew Kishino - Saw Gerrera on The Clone Wars". StarWars.com. October 17, 2012. Retrieved December 2, 2016.
  6. 1 2 3 Kushins, Josh (2016). The Art of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. New York: Abrams. p. 99. ISBN 978-1-4197-2225-7.
  7. ↑ Breznican, Anthony (June 22, 2016). "Star Wars: Rogue One: Forest Whitaker's character revealed". EW.com. Retrieved December 2, 2016.
  8. ↑ "Saw Gerrera". StarWars.com. June 16, 2014. Retrieved December 2, 2016.
  9. ↑ Morrison, Peter (December 17, 2016). "SAW GERRERA COMING TO STAR WARS REBELS SEASON 3". Rebels Reports.
  10. ↑ Breznican, Anthony (December 20, 2016). "See Rogue One's Saw Gerrera return in animated Star Wars: Rebels". Rebels Reports.
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